Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1997 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1997y is directly proportional to x. When x = 5, y = 30. Work out the value of y when x = 8.
- 2nd February 1997Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 3rd February 1997A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 4th February 1997A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 5th February 1997Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 6th February 1997Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 7th February 1997Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 8th February 1997A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 9th February 1997A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 10th February 1997Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 11th February 1997Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 12th February 1997A ray of light travels from air into a glass block and bends towards the normal at the boundary. Name this effect.
- 13th February 1997Name one structure found in a plant cell that is not found in an animal cell.
- 14th February 1997State the name given to elements found in Group 1 of the periodic table.
- 15th February 1997A pupil's results table is missing units for one column, headed only 'Volume'. State why it is important to always include a unit in a column heading or with a numerical answer.
- 16th February 1997Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 17th February 1997Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 18th February 1997In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 19th February 1997Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 20th February 1997A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 21st February 1997An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 22nd February 1997A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 23rd February 1997Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 14 cm by 8.5 cm.
- 24th February 1997Work out 12 x 7.
- 25th February 1997Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 26th February 1997Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 27th February 1997Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 28th February 1997108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.